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Schumacher, Petra B.; Hung, Yu-Chen – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
We present three event-related potential studies that investigated the contribution of givenness and position-induced topicality (what a sentence is about) to information processing. The studies compared two types of referential expressions (given and inferred noun phrases (NPs)) in distinct sentential positions. The data revealed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Language Processing
Hampton, James A.; Passanisi, Alessia; Jonsson, Martin L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
The modifier effect is the reduction in perceived likelihood of a generic property sentence, when the head noun is modified. We investigated the prediction that the modifier effect would be stronger for mutable than for central properties, without finding evidence for this predicted interaction over the course of five experiments. However…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Interaction, Experiments, Nouns
Szewczyk, Jakub M.; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Memory and Language, 2013
Recently, several ERP studies have shown that the human language comprehension system anticipates words that are highly likely continuations of a given text. However, it remains an open issue whether the language comprehension system can also make predictions that go beyond a specific word. Here, we address the question of whether readers predict…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Prediction, Literary Genres
Molinaro, Nicola; Vespignani, Francesco; Zamparelli, Roberto; Job, Remo – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
In the present study we analyze how the cognitive system deals on-line with number agreement mismatches and whether this on-line process influences the off-line interpretation of the sentence. In two ERP experiments we monitored the on-line processing consequences of subject-verb agreement mismatches, focusing on the integration of a following…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Verbs, Nouns
Foucart, Alice; Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
We report a series of ERP and eye-tracking experiments investigating, (a) whether English-French learners can process grammatical gender online, (b) whether cross-linguistic similarities influence this ability, and (c) whether the syntactic distance between elements affects agreement processing. To address these questions we visually presented…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Nouns, Second Language Learning
Delogu, Francesca; Vespignani, Francesco; Sanford, Anthony J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Intensional verbs like "want" select for clausal complements expressing propositions, though they can be perfectly natural when combined with a direct object. There are two interesting phenomena associated with intensional transitive expressions. First, it has been suggested that their interpretation requires enriched compositional operations,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Human Body, Language Processing
Wilson, Michael P.; Garnsey, Susan M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Constraint-based lexical models of language processing assume that readers resolve temporary ambiguities by relying on a variety of cues, including particular knowledge of how verbs combine with nouns. Previous experiments have demonstrated verb bias effects only in structurally complex sentences, and have been criticized on the grounds that such…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Verbs, Nouns
Patson, Nikole D.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
In three eyetracking studies, we investigated the role of conceptual plurality in initial parsing decisions in temporarily ambiguous sentences with reciprocal verbs (e.g., "While the lovers kissed the baby played alone"). We varied the subject of the first clause using three types of plural noun phrases: conjoined noun phrases ("the bride and the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Cognitive Processes
Urbach, Thomas P.; Kutas, Marta – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Event-related brain potentials were recorded during RSVP reading to test the hypothesis that quantifier expressions are incrementally interpreted fully and immediately. In sentences tapping general knowledge ("Farmers grow crops/worms as their primary source of income"), Experiment 1 found larger N400s for atypical ("worms") than typical objects…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests
Tabossi, P.; Wolf, K.; Koterle, S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
An influential theory posits that the syntactic properties of idioms are idiosyncratic and encoded in the mental lexicon in "superlemmas". It follows that experience with an idiom is necessary in order to judge the acceptability of syntactic operations on that idiom. To test these claims, Experiment 1 explored the acceptability of sentences…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Nouns, Syntax
Wagers, Matthew W.; Lau, Ellen F.; Phillips, Colin – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Much work has demonstrated so-called attraction errors in the production of subject-verb agreement (e.g., "The key to the cabinets are on the table", [Bock, J. K., & Miller, C. A. (1991). "Broken agreement." "Cognitive Psychology, 23", 45-93]), in which a verb erroneously agrees with an intervening noun. Six self-paced reading experiments examined…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar
Chang, Franklin – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Languages differ from one another and must therefore be learned. Processing biases in word order can also differ across languages. For example, heavy noun phrases tend to be shifted to late sentence positions in English, but to early positions in Japanese. Although these language differences suggest a role for learning, most accounts of these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Syntax, Language Processing
Bader, Markus; Haussler, Jana – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
This paper investigates how readers process number ambiguous noun phrases in subject position. A speeded-grammaticality judgment experiment and two self-paced reading experiments were conducted involving number ambiguous subjects in German verb-end clauses. Number preferences for individual nouns were estimated by means of two questionnaire…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
Deutsch, Avital; Dank, Maya – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
The present study investigated the process of producing subject-predicate agreement for conceptually driven distinctions which are morphologically specified, such as natural gender and number, and arbitrary morphological specification of gender and number. The study was conducted in Hebrew, in which agreement rules are very prevalent and include…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Cues, Nouns, Grammar
Lew-Williams, Casey; Fernald, Anne – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Three experiments using online-processing measures explored whether native and non-native Spanish-speaking adults use gender-marked articles to identify referents of target nouns more rapidly, as shown previously with 3-year-old children learning Spanish as L1 (Lew-Williams & Fernald, 2007). In Experiment 1, participants viewed familiar objects…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Grammar, Language Processing
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